De-Risk Your Next Technical Bet,
Before You Make It

Yes. A CTO Office is a dedicated unit whose job is to test new ideas, evaluate technologies, and strengthen your architecture, so you do not spend months of engineering time on the wrong thing. We act as that group inside your company that takes on the technical bets your own team doesn t have capacity to test.

It comes down to whether you already have a CTO. If you do, then the Technical Advisory Extension is for you. We work alongside your tech leaders on the hard problems and new ideas your team never has time for. If you don’t have a full-time CTO, that’s where the Virtual CTO comes in. You get part-time senior leadership on architecture, technology choices, and product innovation.

Yes, if you’re making key architecture and technology decisions that need a senior-level executive touch, but you’re not ready for a full-time CTO, yet. Our Virtual CTO offers the benefit of a part-time CTO to your company’s leadership, providing architectural oversight, technology and product innovation guidance and, unlike most fractional CTO services, can help you with proof of concept development and execution, test a decision before you commit to it.

An interim CTO is for when your CTO has left and the seat is empty. If your CTO is still on board, but stretched too thin, you actually need capacity augmentation, not replacement. This is where our Technical Advisory Extension comes in. We work alongside your CTO on the hard problems and new ideas your team doesn’t have time for, such as technology assessments, architectural reviews, and proof-of-concept validations. And your CTO retains full ownership of every decision.

Go full-time when technology decisions are daily, and strategic. That is, when you are scaling the engineering team, owning the hiring culture, and presenting the tech vision to investors. Until then, a fractional CTO can lead the charge on the important, high-level calls for a fraction of the cost. We have a Virtual CTO option for companies without a CTO, and a Technical Advisory Extension for companies whose CTOs could benefit from fractional support. Both can hand over cleanly to a full-time hire later.

Talentica scopes the fractional CTO services depending on what you actually need (for example, architecture decisions, technology evaluation, or product innovation) rather than the executive’s full-time equivalent pay. Engagements begin with a 2 to 3 day discovery workshop, and you get a proposal within days, with clear exit terms.

Of course, this is what Talentica’s Tech Evaluation service is for. We quickly rule out the technologies that will not fit, and benchmark the promising ones against goals you set. You get benchmark documents and a build-versus-buy recommendation before you commit any engineering time. For example, for the executive team at the technology company, we conducted research for a possible exit, uncovering the value in a certain B2B settlement on the blockchain. This information served as a catalyst for creating a spinout, which eventually raised $22M in funding.

Yes, that’s what our Ideation service is for. With a discovery workshop, we define the problem and build quick, instrumented POCs and run A/B tests to inform go/no-go decisions based on data, not intuition. For a real estate investment platform, we built from the ground up the ML pricing system and the dynamic bidding engine which was later acquired by Mynd Property Management.

We will bring in a small team, consisting of a UX or product designer, full-stack engineers, and an AI or blockchain engineer or architect, based on the problem you need to solve. We will start with a 2-3 day discovery workshop before launching into week one, where they will join your stack for stand-ups.

While most Fractional CTO’s act as advisors, our CTO office not only advise but also build. Our embedded team of a designer, full stack engineers, and an AI or blockchain engineer or architect as needed, backs up ideas with working POCs and A/B tests, and delivers production code, architecture decisions and runbooks so that your team can operate it without us. All that comes from 23 years and 200+ products built, including a $22M blockchain spinout and a telecom application where time per session increased 4x.